More and more, as I near the end of career as a heart surgeon, my thoughts have turned to the consideration of why people should suffer. Suffering seems so cruelly prevalent in the world today. Do you know that of the 125 million children born this year, 12 million are unlikely to reach the age of one and another six million will die before the age of five ? And, of the rest, many will end up as mental or physical cripples. My gloomy thoughts probably stem from an accident I had a few years ago. One mintues I was crossing the street with my wife after a lovely meal together, and the next minute a car had hit me and knocked me into my wife. She was thrown into the other lane and struck by a car coming from the opposite direction. (1) Write the name of the chapter and of its author. (i) Where have the narrator's thoughts turned to ? (ii) What is the profession of the narrator? (iv) In which incident were Barnard's gloomy thoughts rooted ? (v) Give the meanings of any two of the following in simple English: gloomy; prevalent, cripples. 2+1+1+1+1=6
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1. More and more, as I near the end of my career as a heart surgeon, my thoughts have turned to the consideration of why people should suffer. Suffering seems so cruelly prevalent in the world today. Do you know that of the 125 million children born this year, 12 million are unlikely to reach the age of one and another six million will die before the age of five? And, of the rest, many will end up as mental or physical cripples.
2. My gloomy thoughts probably stem from an accident I had a few years ago. One minute I was crossing the street with my wife after a lovely meal together, and the next minute a car had hit me and knocked me into my wife. She was thrown into the other lane and struck by a car coming from the opposite direction